Moi!
The new version of the OpenDX toolkit now provides sane libraries, so I
wanted to restructure the packages a bit. In particular, there is a new
package libdx4, so I wanted to rename what used to be dx-dev package as
libdx4-dev. This turned out to be harder than I thought.
The -dev package
Am 24.07.03 um 16:19:15 schrieb Daniel Kobras:
[...] But I also wanted to be nice to the user and
automatically remove the dummy dx-dev once it's no longer needed.
Therefore, libdx4-dev replaces anything in dx-dev, and dpkg removes the
package. [...]
Cool strategy, but in general too
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:37:55PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
Alternatively, there could be a new control field, say Supersedes:,
which would result in the above behaviour. Of course, there'd have to be
a change in policy...
This has already been proposed as Previously: (#33344), and
Am 24.07.03 um 16:51:11 schrieb Daniel Kobras:
This has already been proposed as Previously: (#33344), and
Successor-of: (#77325), but is probably nothing that dpkg itself can
take care of (cf. #33344).
Cool, so many names...
I'm aware that it's not dpkg's responsibility. It's not necessary,
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